them find a killer. our justin surrency has the latest on the investigation... he joins us first on 13 with the latest... justin? students, faculty, staff and family members of emma-lee jacobs are still in shock after the 18 year old was killed while walking on campus monday morning...while they all hope for justice...police say the circumstances surrounding the hit and run crash aren't helping them get very far in the investigation... what was once just a busy crosswalk navigating students and faculty at iowa state university...has turned into a sobering memorial... "i prayed our father and ave maria." around 7 a-m monday morning... in the intersection of lincoln way and ash avenue...police say 18 year old i-s-u student emma-lee jacobs was suffering from injuries consistent with being struck by a car and died at a local hospital the driver fled the scene... "we really believe that at some point someone saw something and

will come forward and help us with the investigation"many say the intersection has a reputation for complaints. i would say that 4-5 block stretch is the main area in town where get complaints about vehicle pedestrian encounters." "even today there was an old lady who didn't see me at the crosswalk and i'm glad i watched."sophomor e student collin still, crosses the intersection every day and did so minutes before emma-lee... "i had a final at 7:30 and crossed the intersection at 6:40 so about 20 minutes earlier and as i left it was pitch dark and you could hardly see anything and it was pouring rain."conditions that are making it hard for police when viewing surveillance cameras... "our video footage it is still dark out there are street lights in the area but you get reflections off the street lights that make everything really blurrya simple phrase written in chalk at the foot of the memorial says once a cyclone, always a cyclone, proving that as finals week continues on, so does the memory

"she was at the beginning of her adult life and who knows what she would have received or given during her life." investigators could use your help finding the car and driver that hit jacobs. contact story county crime stoppers with any information at 515- 382-7577.... emmalee jacobs' funeral service are set for the end of the week. a visitation is from 4 to 8 on friday night at center point united methodist church. a service follows on saturday morning at 10-30 at the center-point- urbana high school. the community is showing its support on social media by using the hash-tag c-p-u strong. a des moines man... charged with murdering his brother... has accepted a plea deal.

guilty to charges of attempted murder and going armed with intent. he was charged with first degree murder. investigators say turner stabbed 29- year-old tad foster during a drunken fight over finances last february. mentally ill. the judge sentenced turned to 30 years behind bars. fort dodge authorities rescued a this morning... then cuffed him and took him into custody. police say they received 38-year-old harry carvalho... was walking in traffic on kenyon road bridge... when they approached him... carvalho took off running and jumped in the river. he eventually grabbed a branch being offered by first responders. that's when they realized carvalho was an escapee from a residential correctional facility. tonight.. he's back behind bars. law enforcement along with school and city officials decided to close all l-a schools today following a bomb threat. at least one school board members received the threat via email. authorities decided to keep more than 640-thousand from

officials say that every campus is being searched as a precaution. 1:24-1:55 the specific threat was attack with assault rifles and machine pistols. these obviously are things that we take very seriously. we worked with the fbi to vet this as best as possible, and i think this has been reported already, the original document was routed through a european country, germany, but the origin has yet to be much closer than germany." a similar threat was received in new york...but authorities concluded it was a hoax. look for more on this story...coming up in just a bit on n-b-c nightly news. then on the channel 13 news at ten...we'll tell you the policies local schools follow when it comes to threats. a key iowa state basketball player is out for the rest of

naz mitrou-long and head coach steve prohm announced this afternoon that the senior guard is out as he continues to recover from the hip surgery he had during the off season. mitrou-long had surgery on his left hip in april...and his right hip in may. he managed to play the first eight games of the season...but has decided it's time to rest due to persistent discomfort. mitrou-long will seek a medical redshirt. he and coach prohm will talk more about the decision tomorrow at noon. drivers who use fleur drive will have to use the detour through the weekend. the raccoon river is expected to crest late tonight and then begin to recede. gano says he's glad the precipitation didn't fall as snow. he says it would have cost up to a million dollars if that system would have dropped 24 to 48 inches of snow. gano didn't estimate an exact cost...but say this flood will cost thousands of dollars to clean-up.

completely different. because we usually clean off road with water. if it's frozen then that my change our tactics a little bit. 06:01:09 gano says if they can't use water...most of the work will fall on the street sweepers. he also says 70-percent of the city's trail system is under water right now...which will take a significant amount of time to cleanup. now we are looking ahead to some much more winter-like temperatures... let's check in with chief meteorologist ed wilson for a first look at the forecast...ed? colder temperatures are back. we are going to see a chance for light flurries late tonight...but little accumulation is expected. more sunshine is in the forecast through the end of the work-week. but the sun will do little to warm us to normal highs. the weekend will be dry and warmer. much warmer temperatures return again next week. highs

it appears the decision on whether to allow the bakken oil pipeline to be built in iowa... won't come until next year. the iowa utilities board met this morning to get an update on the proceedings. officials say

of comments made during the hearings... the board probably won't have the transcripts until the end of the month.. by the way... the hearings also came in over budget. 02:33:52 i am preparing the actual cost and i will inform the department of management so additional appropriation may be requested. these cost will directly billed to dakota access. because of prior discussion with the department of management they are expecting this 02:34:11 the board will review legal brief filed by both parties... then make a decision on whether to allow the 250 mile pipeline. an online merchandise retailer will pay iowans 20- thousand-dollars in refunds. the iowa attorney general say more than 200 iowans are expected to get money back. iowa law requires clear notices when a consumer is being signed up for a buying club membership that involved periodic charges to a credit or debit card. the a-g says wishbone marketing of tennessee...did not do that for its savings-galore-dot-com website. while the company has agreed to

wrongdoing. the iowa department of transportation wants your opinion on proposed improvements to the first street ankeny interchange on i-35. officials are considering a "divergent diamond" interchange... like the one that just opened in waukee. the project would cost about 54-mililon-dollars and would require the d-o-t to acquire about an acre of heritage park. 00:16-00:29 i thinks it's going to be some win-win in my opinion, there might be some right-of-way oppositions. those folks might be there, but overall great safety and capacity group. the public is invited to attend tonight's meeting at any time. it's already underway... but continues until 6-30. it's at the best western metro north on delaware avenue in ankeny. nearly one-third of the nation's population is expect to travel for the upcoming holidays. triple-a says some 100-million people will venture at least 50 miles from

december 23rd and january third. that's an all-time high for holiday travel. experts say the increase is being driven by improvements in the labor market, rising incomes and lower fuel prices. drivers saw a unique sight in one iowa town recently... coming up...how a man tried to help two panhandlers..and what he did to teach them a lesson when they turned him down. but first...the republican presidential candidates are in las vegas tonight. coming up...which candidates are expecting attacks...and the one new thing c-n-n did while creating

the republicans presidential candidates are taking the stage to debate again tonight. the top nine candidates begin at 7-30. c-n-n determined the line-up using recent polls. it's the first time organizers have used early-state data while making their determinations. n-b-c's steve handelsman has more from las vegas. ted cruz comes to las vegas leading in iowa polls and closing in on donald trump in national republican surveys. is the truce between the texas senator and the billionaire frontrunner over? at the debate tonight in this hall in the venetian hotel....at center stage... trump and cruz stand side by side. and cruz expects attacks, says a senior aide sot: rick tyler, cruz senior

" think he'll get more time tonight i think people will come after him" trump showed his temper last night when his rally was interrupted. trump nats trump supporters cursed. one with the nazi salute "sieg heil!"gop insider matt schlapp says the vegas odds are: trump attacks the texan tonight sot: matt schlapp, chairman, the american conservative union :38-:44 "ted cruz is easing in on his territory he is the outsider he is the flavor the month hes the guy with all the momentum" and cruz could tangle with marco rubio. the florida senator polls the best of any of the 14 republicans in a matchup with democrat hillary clinton. sot: marco rubio, presidential candidate :53- :59"we're gonna have 9 people on the stage and another 3 or 4 earlier. not a single one of them is being investigated by the fbi" donald trump claims he's heard: every one will go after him sot: donald trump presidential candidate 1:05-1:09"i'm saying, man, this is like, crazy. who's going to attack trump first?" in a debate that comes on the same day ... that los angeles went on alert... and is sure to focus on the danger of terrorist attacks on america audio outcue: i'm steve handelsman, nbc news,

gop insiders say cruz could face political danger tonight if he takes on trump. that's because experts say cruz needs to win over trumps' supporters. quinnpiac university is releasing new number on the democratic side of the presidential contest today. it show hillary clinton leading bernie sanders 51 to 40-percent. martin o'malley is now at six-percent. 35-percent of likely democratic caucus-goers say the economy and jobs are the most important items in deciding who to nominate. that's followed by health care, climate change, foreign policy...then terrorism. by the way...the democrats debate again this saturday. colder temperatures are back. we are going to see a chance for tonight...but little

more sunshine is in the forecast through the end of the work-week. but

heart disease. asthma. diabetes. 7 out of 10 americans take prescription drugs. but in the last 7 years drugs prices have doubled. hillary's going to take on the drug companies. require medicare to negotiate lower drug prices. let people buy their prescription drugs from countries like canada at half the price. and cap monthly prescription costs for every american. the drug companies have been over charging long enough. it's time to fight back. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. colder temperatures are back. we are going to see a chance for

accumulation is expected. more sunshine is in the forecast through the end of the work-week. but the sun will do little to warm us to normal highs. the weekend will be dry and warmer. much warmer temperatures return again next week. highs

coming up...a picture from one iowa town is going viral. and a business owner is at the

next...what he did to take matter into his own hands when he saw an injustice being done. paris: there's a lot to do on a dairy farm. nobody's gonna do it for you. you have to get out there and do it yourself. bernie sanders is a well-known friend of family farms. bernie cannot be bought out by big money. bernie's opinion cannot be purchased. it's time for our next president to get in there, roll up his sleeves, take off the gloves, and take on wall street, take on big business, take on big money, and get the working class back to where they should be. he's a rock.

it's a clash between a business owner... and a beggar... in iowa... now a picture of the two of them... is going viral. after seeing the boys standing on the street asking for money a muscatine business owner offered them both a job.... they declined so he decide to takeeatter into his own hands. jenna morton has the story. some would call it tough love... 30:31 "the only way you can ever

to push yourself and dont let anyone stand in your way.' car nats on this corner in muscatine iowa you can find panhandlers several times a week... two are regulars... after feeling bad for the boys mike pothoff offered them a job at his business.... 22:36 'i said youre hired and then said were not from around here and i said well youre here and then they just smirked.' over the weekend the same boys were back at it...holding signs saying they're broke and hungry... once again mike offered them a job...they declined...so mike decided to join them... pictures captured mike standing on the corner with them... holding his own sign... 33:27 'offered these guys a job. they said no. dont give them money.' the picture has gone viral... 27:26 'all of a sudden it just went kaboosh i mean it just blew up.' while mike doesn't have a problem with panhandlers he says he wants to make sure they really need the help. 24:32 "it upsets me that we have younger kids or people that can work that are doing that." it's not the first time mike

offered a job to a panhandler to only have them turn the offer down... 27:44 'its about you know people that really do need money and maybe they do but i think they can work too.' and he says it won't be the last time either... 31:11 'if theyre going to stand out there and hold a sign and ask for money and say theyre homeless i can hold a sign out there i offered these guys a job dont give them money.' mike says the job offer is still on the table for the boys... in muscatine people are allowed to panhandle as long as its not done aggressively. stick around, we'll get another

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